Just wondering which medical schools use a true, unranked P/F system (as in marks and class rankings won't show up on your transcript). Tried searching around but everything was either in bits and pieces or led to https://www.aamc.org/initiatives/medaps/curriculumreports/ which doesn't currently have any data.

This is my understanding, too. They have to rank you in order to write your dean's letter for residency apps, right?

The school I'm going to attend (Texas Tech-El Paso) has true Pass/Fail for the first two years. The third and fourth years have Honors, High Pass, Pass, and Fail (looks a lot like letter grades).

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I'll be attending a school with a similar set-up as well. My understanding, though I could be wrong, has been that although you'll only know if you and your classmates passed or failed actual percentages are kept track-of by profs. for the Dean's Letters and AOA.

Stanford is true PF for the first two years. No grades in core classes (you can take graded electives if you want at the University as a whole, but I think everyone just takes them pass fail unless they are trying to get an MS or something). There are no transcript grades and no ranking, No AOA at all at the school.

Clerkships are pass and honors.

The deans letter tries very hard not to rank students, for better or worse.

IIRC Penn doesn't rank you for clinical rotations... they simply give a written evaluation at the end. After all the haggling and subjectivity of getting "honors, excellent, good, etc" in the 3rd year, I would have killed for that. At least if you're going to be ranked on your test scores, you're being graded objectively and you only have your self to credit/blame rather than relying on what some catty ObGyn thinks of your "enthusiasm."

I once asked one of my deans why we didn't do that, the indirect awkward answer I got was essentially "Penn has Penn's reputation and can get away with that. We can't."

Columbia does not rank ever and is true p/f during pre-clinicals. The closest thing that they do to ranking you is sending the average classes performance (how many honored, high passed, etc for each rotation).

UMASS Medical School is true P/F for the first two years. They keep a ranking only for AOA determination, then they destroy the ranking. There is no ranking sent out on residency applications.

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From what I was told by several MS1s at UMass, there is no ranking at all until MS3 rotations, making it a truly P/NP grading system. AOA is determined by step scores and clinical evaluations/shelf exams.